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Thursday, December 20, 2012

Shouting From the Rooftops

By Alan Caruba

For years, decades actually, I and
others have been shouting from the rooftops that global warming was a hoax. We
were called “deniers” and “skeptics.” A lot of time has passed since the late
1980s when Dr. James Hansen, the director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space
Studies, kicked off the global warming hoax with testimony before Congress.

Global warming gained momentum
because the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
seized on it as a means to redistribute the wealth from developed nations to
those that have lagged behind and because the media love stories of imminent
danger. The media remains largely committed to global warming despite ample
evidence it is (a) not happening and (b) a complete
lie.

While many regard former Vice
President Al Gore as the poster boy of global warming, it has been the IPCC that
has been the main culprit in advancing the hoax, issuing reports of dire
consequences if nations do not reduce their “greenhouse gas” emissions (mainly
carbon dioxide abbreviated as CO2) to avoid a dramatically increased warming in
ten, twenty, or fifty years. As time went along, global warming was coming any
day now, but it never seemed to arrive.

The problem the lead scientists
providing the bogus data to support the IPCC reports encountered was the
perfectly natural cooling cycle the
Earth entered about sixteen years ago. In 2009, a leak of emails between them
was dubbed “Climategate” as it revealed how these conspirators were panicked by
the cooling that began to occur around 1998. It also revealed their efforts to
smear scientists who dissented from their claims as “deniers” and “skeptics” and
plotted to deny them access to leading science
publications.

The primary claim made by the IPCC
and other “warmists” was that there was a “consensus” among the world’s
scientists, but anyone familiar with science knows that it does not operate on
consensus. Instead, each new hypothesis or theory is always challenged, often
for decades, until it is proven to be reproducible and resistant to alternative
interpretation.

John O’Sullivan of Principia
Scientific International, an organization of scientists and others battling
the global warming hoax, recently reported to its members, interested parties,
and science writers like myself of the leak of data by one of the IPCC
researchers, Alec Rawls, who no longer wanted to be a party to its
reports.

O’Sullivan reported that “Up till now
the role of the Sun, referred to as enhanced solar forcing, received only scant
mention in prior IPCC reports (AR3 and AR4) being glibly dismissed. But this is
the first time IPCC authors have acknowledged the evidence that a solar
mechanism seems to be at work.”

“The source of the leak, Alec Rawls,
said, “I participated in ‘expert review’ of the Second Order Draft of AR5 (the
next IPCC report), Working Group 1 (“The Scientific Basis”) and am now making
the full draft available to the public. His reason for taking this action, a
break in the confidentially agreement, was the “systematic dishonesty of the
report” which he said was corrupted by “bad faith” and “fraud.”

It might seem obvious to most people
that the Sun is the most powerful factor in climate change, given the records of
the gains and reductions of solar radiation, the Earth’s many ice ages, and the
simple fact that it gets colder at night than during the day!

The solar mechanism is, of course,
the Sun.

The global warming—now called climate
change—hoax depends on convincing people that greenhouse gases, the exhalation
of carbon dioxide by humans and mammals, and emissions based on the use of coal,
oil, and natural gas pose a threat to the planet’s temperatures. In a very real
way, hard core environmentalists favor reducing the world’s population by any
means possible and the reduction in all the modern technologies that use energy,
coal, natural gas and oil, to enhance life around the
globe.

“The (IPCC) admission of strong
evidence for enhanced solar forcing changes everything,” said Rawls. “The
climate alarmists can’t continue to claim that warming was entirely due to human
activity over a period when solar warming effects…were acknowledged to be
important.”

In other words, humans play a very
small role in the Earth’s climate, especially when compared to the power of the
Sun.

This is what some very brave climate
scientists and meteorologists have been saying for decades! They have been
ignored or derided by the mainstream media who are wedded to the global warming
hoax. It had the power of the federal government behind it (and still does)
because it remains the justification for costly programs. From the Environmental
Protection Agency to the Defense Department and all federal agencies in between,
they continue to pump out propaganda and regulations based on this Big
Lie.

The United Nations program exists to
redistribute billions from developed nations to those who have lagged behind.
The recently concluded IPCC conference made the transition from global warming
to climate change to “sustainability” with the demand that less developed
nations receive funding if they are affected by natural weather events such as
hurricanes, heat waves, floods, droughts, and tornadoes.

As Ralph
B. Alexander, a physicist and the author of “Global Warming False Alarm”,
recently noted, “The link between extreme weather and global warming has as much
scientific basis as the pagan rite of human sacrifice to ensure a good
harvest.”

Alexander noted that weather events
“show no long-term trend whatever over more than a century of reliable data.
Weather extremes have occurred from time immemorial, long before
industrialization boosted the CO2 level in the
atmosphere.”

Indeed, the increase of CO2 has not
induced or deterred the current climate cycle; cooling. Since the length of
interglacial periods between ice ages is about 11,500 years, the Earth is on the
cusp of a new ice age. Ironically, the CO2 increase may be delaying
it.

About Me

I am and have been for a long time a writer by profession. I have several books to my credit and my daily column, "Warning Signs", is disseminated on many Internet news and opinion websites, as well as blogs. In addition, I am a longtime book reviewer and have a blog offering a monthly report on new fiction and non-fiction.